Good Evening, @Rooseveltisland! Thank you for letting us know. We will contact our partners at the city that manage the landings so they can send a team to the barge with salt. Have a great evening! -M

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a meeting of the Operations Advisory Committee of the RIOC Board of Directors will be held on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 5:00 P.M. at RIOC Capital Planning and Projects Office, 680 Main Street, Roosevelt Island, New York.

6:00 P.M.:
1. Gift of Art Sculpture
2. Landscaping Request for Proposal
3. Lighthouse Bridge Repair (Emergency)
4. Tram Track Rope Project
5. Octagon Field Construction award
6. Sportspark Design Request for Proposal
7. Blackwell House Interior Restoration for Saratoga Associates Change Order 4 & 5
8. Motorgate Assessment and Graphics - Lawrence Group
9. Any Other Committee Business that May be Brought Before the Committee
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The Open Meetings Law of the State of New York requires that all public bodies conduct meetings, convened for the purpose of officially conducting public business, in a manner open to attendance by the general public to observe and listen.

The car and station heavy duty cleaning program is an essential component of the Subway Action Plan and coordinates with other Subway Action Plan initiatives. It was launched in December 2018 and work is getting underway this month. The Subway Action Plan allocated approximately $200 million to the overall car and station program. This element of the car and station program involves numerous contractors to perform a one-time blitz targeting 100 priority stations and up to 3,000 cars - for intensive cleaning and refurbishment. Funded by the Subway Action Plan, the plan is to show demonstrable results over the next several months. Once refurbished, regular procedures can maintain the higher level of condition and service. An additional goal of the program is to give NYC Transit and its permanent workforce insight into new techniques, processes and materials that may enhance NYC Transit’s operations for many years to come.

UPDATE 4:15 PM - The Twitterverse asks:

Does anyone know if there are plans to fix the water leaks onto the platform? The tiles can get quite slippery.

Monday, February 18, 2019

Last Saturday night, a Roosevelt Island resident reported the following incident at the Roosevelt Island Tram Circle (picture taken Sunday afternoon).

According to the resident:

Did anyone else just hear or witness the explosive noise (and subsequent smoke) near the north side of the tram station? My concierge thought it involved a car chase and someone else thought she saw a gun.

The concierge says the main car spinning out over and over was a high end Mercedes. I could only see the smoke (after the noise) off to the east side of my bldg and at least 2 men run to a red truck, get in the truck, and drive off super fast.

The concierge says someone was outside walking their dog while the main car (Mercedes?) was doing circles, and she thought they were pointing guns at one another. The smell of burning rubber was in our building after that.

After I visited with the concierge about it, I came back to my apartment and 30 minutes later decided I should let the Roosevelt Island police know about the red car that I could see out my window (not the main car involved per the concierge). When I called the police to give the details he said that their patrol had just completed, and the area was fine. I tried again to explain that the incident was 45 minutes prior but that I thought they should be on the look-out for the types of cars involved. The person I was speaking with was not interested in details.

It was 10:30pm on a warm Saturday night so anyone could have been hit through recklessness (if that is all it was). I wish the police had been interested in hearing these details.

A Tram rider saw the incident and added:

It was some lunatic doing donuts with their car at the roundabout near the tram. It happened as I was boarding it earlier.

I saw the tire marks very clearly from the tram cabin. Likely someone recklessly showing off their new ride. Some people really don't deserve a license.

Another witness reported seeing a car speeding down East Main Street past Riverwalk Building at over 50 mph.

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